Amy Carmichael famous quotes

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Strong #Blow #Wind

He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Christian #Powerful #Inspiration

If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Depressing #Blame #Praise

Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
-- Amy Carmichael

#Three #Kind #Said

It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Impossible #Lord #Given

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Blessed #Blessing #Soul

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Water #Matter #Cups

Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Thinking #Too Much #Enough

If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Victory #Refuse

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Christmas #Heart #God Bless

If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Easter #Giving #Doubt

All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey...
-- Amy Carmichael

#Remember

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates
-- Amy Carmichael

#Desire #Safe

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?
-- Amy Carmichael

#Christian #Heart #Light

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'
-- Amy Carmichael

#Stars #Men #Two

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Prayer #Blessed #Inspiration

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Firsts #Crosses #Wanted

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Faith #Heart #Leisure

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Inspiration #Opportunity #Cost

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Children #Growing Up #Parent

If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Peace #Taken #Giving

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Forgiveness #Memories #Forgiving

I would rather burn out than rust out.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Rust #Burn Out

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Spiritual #Taken #Maturity

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Inspiration #Sunset #Winning

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Christian #Religion

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Missionary #May #Praying

If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Goal #Easier #Calvary

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Women #Victory #Way

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Missionary #Chance #Life Is

What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Spiritual #Men #Secret

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Spiritual #Inspiration #Helping Others

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.
-- Amy Carmichael

#War #Inspiration #Sunset

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Strong #Attitude #Thinking

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Inspiration #Joy #Lord

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Prayer #Soul #Relief

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Country #Fear #Thinking

O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still. Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied; From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide. Until this tyranny be overpast, Thy hand will hold me fast; What though the tumult of the storm increase, Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Art #Inspiration #Fall

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
-- Amy Carmichael

#Scar #Savior #Wounds

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Cold #Calvary #Offence

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Country #Fashion #Home

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Doe #Deliverance #Wave

If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Sweet #Water #Jars

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Way #Calvary #Conversation

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Inspiration #Views #True Life

Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Loneliness #Glowing #Wind

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Humility #Firsts #Honest

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Men #Faithful #Might

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Disappointment #Attitude #Fear

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Kindness #Names #Reputation

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Strong #Latin #Two